The observant trucker who notified authorities when he suspected something was amiss at a RV truck stop in New Kent County, Va., shared his story.
Trucker Kevin Kimmel, a father and grandfather, was inside of his rig, parked at a Pilot station outside Richmond, Virginia, when he caught a glimpse of a young, distraught woman through the window of an RV. The woman disappeared behind a black curtain and Kimmel’s gut reaction told him that something was amiss.
“Saw what looked like a young girl looking out the window, the black drapes didn’t make it look like a family’s RV, you know,” Kimmel told WTVR. “I saw a guy come up and knock on the door then go inside the Pilot — then quickly came back and knocked again, all of the sudden the thing was rocking and rolling.”
Kimmel said it was a “no brainer” as to what was going on, so he called the police.
“When I saw the young girl’s face, I said that’s not going to happen, I’ve got daughters and granddaughters,” he told the news station.
“So I called the police, and within five minutes, there were four cars there,” Kimmel stated.
As it turned out, Kimmel’s instinct was right. The young woman trapped in the RV was being abused. Police arrested a man and a woman originally from Iowa and charged her with abducting the victim and forcing her into prostitution.
Law enforcement authorities from the area outside Richmond searched the RV after the tip, finding a malnourished young woman who alleged that Aldair Hodza, 36, and Laura Sorensen, both of Clive, Iowa, were holding her against her will and were physically and sexually abusing her.
The female victim, 20, had puncture wounds on the top of her feet and numerous burns on her abdomen, groin, and back.
She also told authorities that her captors branded her on her back and set her up to perform a sex act at the truck stop along Route 106 through a Craigslist ad, WTVR previously reported.
Hodza allegedly tortured the woman by burning her with keys heated over a stove and hammering nails into her feet.
The victim told police she was abducted on Christmas Eve and forced into prostitution by the couple, who was traveling from Iowa to Virginia. Sorenson and Hodza allegedly threatened to kill her family if she told anyone.
Pictures were found in the trailer of the victim naked, bound, and gagged. Another photo shows an unknown person spraying Clorox bleach into an open wound on her body.
Iowa authorities have stated the female victim was not reported missing.
Kimmel found out the horrific details of what happened to the woman he saved through the news.
“I only learned the gruesome details through the news,” Kimmel said. ‘”I’m just happy I helped her.”
The Iowa couple, who is charged with abduction with intent to defile, will stand trial in federal court because they allegedly moved the victim over state boundary lines and around several jurisdictions within Virginia.
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These two should suffer everything they did to this poor woman but sadly they WON’T.